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Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick has published a piece on the Lawfare blog regarding the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). 

In November 2014, the Clements Center and War Studies Department at King’s College London hosted 30 current and former academics and practitioners for “Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American Worldview: A Century of the Special Relationship.” The following articles have been published in The American Interest as a result of the panel presentations. 

On August 4, incoming students in the LBJ School’s masters degree programs completed an analytic simulation led by visiting officials from CIA’s Directorate of Analysis. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists of its inaugural competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

In a new Shadow Government post, Associate Director Paul D. Miller discusses the impact of of the former Taliban leader’s death on the Islamic State and Middle East. 

The Austin American-Statesman invited Clements Center Executive Director William Inboden and Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri to offer alternative views on the Iran nuclear deal. 

Strauss Center Director and Clements Senior Fellow Robert Chesney was quoted in a New York Times article by Charlie Savage on Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay.

Incoming Graduate Research Student Anna Waterfield and the Clements Center’s 2014-15 Graduate Assistant Ashley Nelle-Davis were featured in an online discussion on VICE News “On the Line” in early July. 

From November 19-21, 2015, the Clements Center for National Security and Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law will sponsor the second annual National Security Forum at the University of Texas at Austin. This year’s event, “Great Powers, Failed States, and New Frontiers: National Security Challenges in the 21st Century,” will explore the security challenges the U.S. currently faces, and how our national security institutions are positioned to respond.

Joshua Eisenman, Clements Faculty Fellow and LBJ School Assistant Professor, has published an oped in the Wall Street Journal on China’s current and historical expansion to disputed territories.

Undergraduate Fellow Jake Barnett has filed this report on his time at the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center while studying abroad in Jordan Spring 2015. 

William Inboden and Dan Blumenthal of the American Enterprise Institute published an article in The Weekly Standard making the case for re-establishing a “freedom prong” in U.S. China policy.

Dr. Inboden questions the terms of the Iranian nuclear deal in his latest Shadow Government piece, “Why Can’t the White House See What’s Wrong with the Iran Deal?”.

Oil & Gas Journal has published a report by Faculty Affiliate Eugene Gholz and his team of 16 LBJ School students about “implications of unconventional oil and gas production technologies for US national security.”

Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick and Michael Allen have co-authored a piece for Foreign Policy on the 10th anniversary of the DNI.

The Clements Center sponsored the participation this week of 16 University of Texas-Austin students in “Exercise Nine Innings” at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. 

The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the inaugural round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.

Executive Director William Inboden was interviewed by William Marsden for Canada’s main newspaper the National Post for an article titled “Always troubled Mideast has entered a very ‘dark period’ – and experts say it’s only getting worse.”

The Clements and Strauss Centers were represented by Intelligence Studies Project Director Steve Slick at a March 3, 2015 symposium on A Decade of IC Integration & The Challenges Ahead hosted in Arlington, Virginia by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

In his U.S. News and World Report piece, “An Irreducibly Religious Movement,” William Inboden answers the question: Is the President Right to Say ‘Violent Extremism’ Instead of ‘Islamic Extremism’?

“The best way to memorialize kidnapped and murdered American aid worker Kayla Mueller is not by going to war. It’s by following her example,” says Postdoctoral Fellow Steele Brand in his article published in The Federalist. 

On Thursday, April 2nd at 4:00pm in the Blanton Museum Auditorium, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) will speak at UT on national security. 

Executive Director William Inboden and Academic Board members Peter Feaver and Kori Schake offer foreign policy advice to President Obama in their latest Shadow Government blog post titled “The Wonkiest Yard.”

Associate Director Paul D. Miller was a guest on The Dan Caplis Show, a news/talk radio show in the Denver area. He discussed his latest article in The New Republic titled “America, Don’t Give Up on Afghanistan.”

Faculty Fellow and Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney was interviewed for PRI’s “The World” for a story on Edward Snowden titled “To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone.”

The Clements Center recently released its Winter 2014 newsletter. The online publication highlights the great accomplishments from fall 2014 and looks ahead to the spring semester. 

Rand Paul’s recent talk at the Center for the National Interest about “conservative realism” was the topic of Associate Director Paul D. Miller’s blog post for Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government.

Clements Center Senior Faculty Fellow Robert Chesney is quoted by Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post opinion piece “Why Edward Snowden should agree to stand trial in the U.S.”

In a CFR Energy Report, Clements Faculty Fellow Dr. Eugene Gholz “analyzes the economic and security consequences of China’s central position in the global rare-earths market.”

The Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance hosted the much anticipated conference “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” at the University of Texas October 16-18. 

Clements Center Director William Inboden and Strauss Center Director Robert Chesney discussed the upcoming conference “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” on Capital Tonight.